It's important to note that the most recent, 52-foot find is not the longest ancient Egyptian papyrus scroll ever found. That honor goes to certain Book of the Dead scrolls that measure almost 100 ...

An expert said there could be more scrolls out there as artificial intelligence and other new technology helps to decipher ...

The Grand Egyptian Museum, located in Giza, is already planning to use the new preservation technique to protect ancient papyri. Meanwhile, the researchers will be studying whether wasabi can be ...

In 1993, 140 carbonized papyrus scrolls dating from the sixth century C.E. were discovered in a Byzantine church in Petra, Jordan. Blackened and fragile, they were considered unreadable.

A team of scholars has used cutting edge technology to piece together sections of a 2,000 year-old scroll damaged by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD, which killed tens of thousands as it ...

The "'Book of the Dead' denotes the relatively large corpus of mortuary texts that were typically copied onto papyrus scrolls and deposited in burials of the New Kingdom [circa 1550 B.C. to 1070 B ...

Damaged ancient papyrus scrolls dating back to the 1st century CE are finally being deciphered by the Vesuvius Challenge contest winners using computer vision and AI machine learning programs. The ...

Located on the Egyptian coast of the Red Sea, Wadi al-Jarf is a quiet, unassuming place today. Dry desert sands and placid blue water stretch out as far as the eye can see; across the water one ...

One palatial residence in Herculaneum—believed to have once belonged to a man named Piso—contained hundreds of priceless written scrolls made from papyrus, singed into carbon by volcanic gas.

Elon Musk is keen to help with efforts to decode 2,000-year-old papyrus scrolls. In a post on X, ... Youssef Nader, an Egyptian Ph.D. student in Berlin, and Julian Schilliger, ...

Archeologists recently recovered a nearly 16-meter (52-foot) long ancient Egyptian papyrus writing from a tomb in Saqqara, Egypt. The writing — which is more than 2,000 years old — was found inside a ...